以上两部电影相信很多人都看过，《了不起的盖茨比》（《The Great Gatsby》）与《返老还童》(《The curious case of Benjamin Button》)。电影的原著小说均出自同一位作者--F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德（Francis Scott Fitzgerald）。
F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德，被公认为20世纪美国最伟大的小说家之一，是美国“爵士时代”的代言人。菲茨杰拉德一生写了上百篇短篇小说和四篇长篇小说，主要作品有《了不起的盖茨比》（1925）《人间天堂》（1920）《夜色温柔》（1934）等等。
Francis Scott Fitzgerald（1896-1940）is publicly recognized as one of the greatest American novelists in 20th century, who is famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age.
Fitzgerald completed four novels and more than 150 short stories in his life. Among his major works, The Great Gatsby（1925） is the most brilliant one.
据称，《了不起的盖茨比》是美国著名影星凯瑟琳·泽塔-琼斯非常喜爱的一本书。她认为菲茨拉德的这本著作就是一个窗口，“你会借由这个窗口窥见爵士乐时代，富人阶层的生活方式与生存法则”。
The leading U.S. actress Catherine Zeta-Jones’s favorite book is The Great Gatsby. She said that you can “check out this Fitzgerald classic to get a take on the lives of the wealthy during the Jazz Age”.
The Great Gatsby
《了不起的盖茨比》
The Great Gatsby is generally considered as Fitzgerald's best work and certainly the book for which he is best known. The story takes place in 1922, during the Jazz Age, a time of prosperity in the United States after World War I. Gatsby’s longing for mysterious wealth and his past lover brings him insubstantial glory and then pushes him to an eventual fall.
《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家菲茨杰拉德最著名的小说。故事发生于上世纪二十年代美国纸醉金迷的爵士时代，中西部小子盖茨比到东部闯荡，奋力追求那极致的浮华和飘渺的爱情，最终繁华落尽，孤独地死去。
Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
盖茨比的悲剧人生亦如烟花,也像一场破碎了的“美国梦”,一瞬璀璨后走向了幻灭。
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
《本杰明·巴顿奇事》（又名《返老还童》）
This novel is bursting with fantasy and magic plots. Full grown with a long, smoke-colored beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. Left behind by his original family, he was adopted by a black couple. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, dreams、love、bitterness and arduousness are accompanied throughout his life…
《本杰明·巴顿奇事》，又名《返老还童》，是一篇充满魔幻色彩的小说，讲述主人公本杰明•巴顿逆行时光的人生故事。本杰明一出生就像一位耄耋的老者，因其异类一出生即被原生家庭抛弃。幸运的是他被一对黑人夫妇收养并给予他无限的爱和智慧。随着时间的流逝，本杰明越变越年轻，他经历了梦想、追求、爱情、痛苦、艰辛、迷惘……
This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end.
作者曾坦言，这篇作品的创作灵感源自马克·吐温的那番感慨：生命总是开端于最美好的状态，在最糟糕的时候结束。
Tender is the night
《夜色温柔》
First published in 1934, Tender Is the Night is Fitzgerald’s fourth and final completed novel. The title is taken from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats--“Already with thee! Tender is the night”.
《夜色温柔》是菲茨杰拉德第四部也是他生前最后一部完结的长篇小说，首次出版于1934年。书名灵感来源于英国诗人济慈的《夜莺颂》，“我已和你同往，夜色这般温柔”。
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked "Tender Is the Night" 28th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
1998年，美国《现代图书馆》评出20世纪100部最优秀英文小说，《夜色温柔》名列第28位。
Winter Dreams
《冬之梦》
“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”
“从前我心里总有那么股劲儿，可如今已经没了。如今已经没了，已经没了。我哭不出来，我没有心思。那股劲儿永远也不会再回来了。”这是故事的最后，主人公德克斯特·格林发出的。
Middle-class Dexter Green has big dreams—to one day be as elite as the "old-money" families he works for each day as a golf caddy. When Dexter returns to the golf club as the guest of the men he once caddied for, he meets his undoing in the enchanting Judy Jones.
德克斯特出生在一个中产阶级家庭，少年时期曾去高尔夫球场做球童。在那里，他遇见了让他一辈子魂牵梦萦的女孩琼斯……若干年后，当他重回旧地，心爱的姑娘已嫁做他人妇，一切再难回到过去。
First published in Metropolitan Magazine in 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" was considered by the author to be the first draft of The Great Gatsby. It is his most popular and republished short story within the Gatsby-cluster.
1922年，《冬之梦》首次发表在美国《大都会杂志》，是菲茨杰拉德最受欢迎的短篇小说，曾多次再版，被认为是《了不起的盖茨比》的创作雏形.
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